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What Was The Ideology of Nazism
What Was The Ideology of Nazism
Case study:
Nazi ideology:
Hated treaty of Versailles (harsh and unfair)
economic problem is insufficient land to sustain needs of growing population.
Superiority of German (Aryan) race, Against Jews and slaves and Hatred of
communism
Foreign Policy
Hitlers aims: Revise treaty of Versailles, unite all German speaking people in one
country (make a greater Germany) living space lebensraum and to be
independent
He thought he should rule all Europe because otherwise it would fall apart as a
nation.
Power stations
The Rhineland:
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Austria:
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Domestic policies
Volksgemeinschaft (peoples community)
- Aimed to create a German society built on the Nazi ideas of race and struggle,
uniting traditional German values with a new ideology. Based on peasantry but
not really because of contradiction in Hitlers goals.
- The ideal German image was that of the classic peasant working on the soil in
the rural community, exemplified in the Nazi concept of "Blood and Soil" = based
on economic revival + national salvation
- The traditional gender roles were also important
- To be part of this society youd have to be or Aryan origin (considered them to
be purest volk which represented traditional values lost in urban society) anyone
who fell outside the Aryan race was classed as under-human or sub-human
untermenschen
Economic Policy
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Anti-Semitism
Leadership- Fhrerprinzip
this was German word for "leader principle set the fundamental basis of political
authority in the governmental structures of the Third Reich because Hitler
basically had little faith in the parliamentary democracy, and Marxism to be
disfigured by a ruthless programme of social reform.
According to his so-called Leader Principle, ultimate authority rested with him
and extended downward. At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the
subordinates to follow them to the letter. In practice the command relationships
were more subtle and complex, especially at the lower levels, but Hitler did have
the final say on any subject in which he took a direct interest, including the
details of military operations, that is, the actual direction of armies in the field.